Ros. Responsa 13 c

Ros. Responsa 13 c

Agunah

1909

Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana

Lodewijk H. Sarlouis

Sarlouis

Even Ha'Ezer

TRUE

May an abandoned wife remarry based on a government war report plus one witness that brought a ring from the body, or does the body need to be disinterred?

A person left his home and left his way without a divorce. After some years, a government notice reports that in a far-off place this person died during war, identified according to the number attached to each of the pieces of clothing that he was wearing. But it is also known that mercenary soldiers often have fraudulent or stolen papers, and sign with other people's names. But one Jew reports that he was in the same war, and he brought a ring that he claims was taken from the dead man's finger, and the wife and the man's sisters recognize the ring as having belonged to the person's father, which the deceased inherited from him. And they also know that the man had signs on his body. And now the question is if the woman may remarry, and if not, may the grave of the man be reopened to conform the body has the signs on the body.